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So [Gina] Rodriguez is concentrating on using her platform to create change. Her production company just sold a series to Disney’s new streaming service about a Latina girl who will grow up to be President. After all, it’s children, she argues, who are most affected by the lack of diversity onscreen.

Recently, her I Can and I Will production company “just sold a dope show” called “Diary of a Female President” to Disney’s planned streaming service “It’s about a young Latina girl in middle school, and you flash-forward to the future and she’s the president of the United States,” she says.

Julie Ashton is casting the new Disney+ series Diary of a Female President. Follows the life of a middle school student who will eventually become the leader of the free world.

CBS and Gina Rodriguez’s production company I Can and I Will Productions are developing a series that will be joining one of the many exclusive shows coming to the Disney streaming service, Disney+. Written by Robin Shorr and Ilana Peña (The Middle, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) the show will be called Diary of a Female President, focusing on the middle school years of a young Latina girl who will eventually become president. Diary of a Female President’s writers will also be producing the series with Gina Rodriguez and development executive of the production company, Emily Gipson.

Disney+, the forthcoming SVOD platform, is adding to its scripted offerings, handing out a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for half-hour comedy Diary of a Female President. Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez will executive produce. Told from the narration of her diary, the series follows a Cuban-American 12-year-old girl as she navigates the ups and downs of middle school and her journey to becoming the future president of the United States. Ilana Peña (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) created the original concept and will serve as writer and executive producer. Robin Shorr (The Carmichael Show) will serve as showrunner and exec produce alongside Rodriguez and her CBS TV Studios-based I Can and I Will banner topper Emily Gipson.

We at GWW have heard ‘Diary of a Female President,’ the upcoming 10-episode Disney+ series, will begin filming this June and wrap this September in Los Angeles, California. Additionally, while it was previously reported the show will star Gina Rodriguez (‘Jane the Virgin,’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’), we can reveal she will also be a director on the series. However, it is unknown how many episodes Rodriguez will direct. While there is no premiere date as of now, the show will most likely release in 2020. Disney+ will launch at the end of this year.

UmbrellaFish wrote:TBH since this seems geared to kids

DisneyFan97 wrote:I love that we have kids show